Oklahoma teacher protest

Since I get the pleasure of being called a racist quite a bit I'll keep it real here. Many upper middle class/rich largely white areas have excellent public schools. So it makes sense people in those areas are ok with the educational status quo. That's white privilege right? So easy to sit back and say "we should spend more money on teachers and schools" as a positive virtue signal but for many the results never change. But it doesn't affect the well to do whites because it's not their kids. Charter schools, as one example, have done an amazing job in some cities. But teacher unions fight them tooth and nail and many well to do whites do as well because again, they can afford to move if they live in a bad school district.
 
Darth Omar said:
Teachers here in WV were on strike for about three weeks.

I had mixed up emotions about it as a healthcare worker. Granted, they were underpaid for what they do but many of us in healthcare feel their pain lol. Also, their health insurance package is better than than most healthcare workers—way better, in some instances and their pension package is better than most of us in the private sector. Many hospitals have been forced to drop them all together. Let’s see, they also get to go on strike but we’re at the mercy of the hospital administrators because we can’t go on strike for obvious ethical reasons—administrators know this, and take advantage of it.

And they get summers off. Most of us can only imagine such a thing. So while I understand the importance of teachers, I can’t honestly say that I felt sorry for them.

So, teachers here got their raise and I’ll sit here and wait for my taxes to go up.
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Uh muh taxes lol.

Shut the fuck up, indigenous tooth.
 
Rune said:
Honestly with just 8 years experience and only working 180 days a year instead of 250 in addition to a pretty lightweight masters 40K seems fair.
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in what places can a person live an unimpoverished life on 40 K
 
cawacko said:
Since I get the pleasure of being called a racist quite a bit I'll keep it real here. Many upper middle class/rich largely white areas have excellent public schools. So it makes sense people in those areas are ok with the educational status quo. That's white privilege right? So easy to sit back and say "we should spend more money on teachers and schools" as a positive virtue signal but for many the results never change. But it doesn't affect the well to do whites because it's not their kids. Charter schools, as one example, have done an amazing job in some cities. But teacher unions fight them tooth and nail and many well to do whites do as well because again, they can afford to move if they live in a bad school district.
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because they are one of the things robbing funding idiot
 
Rune said:
My family on my mother's side were all Professors, instructors, or High School principals.

Some people love teaching, stop being a twat.
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Your dad must have been a real genius then, watered down the IQ, with you not being able to graduate college.
 
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